[vox-tech] rsync question

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Fri Sep 24 01:28:03 PDT 2004


Quoting Bill Kendrick (nbs at sonic.net):

> You people scare me.

That's our job!  ;->

> rsync's a little more robust if the connection dies, though, right?
> Or is wget pretty smart, too?

No, wget's dirt-stupid, which helps make it fast.  About the only smarts
built in is the "-c" switch to resume a _previously_ truncated fetch,
appending to the end of the partial file instead of throwing it away and
starting over.

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Rick Moen
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